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Why Zane Grey's Westerns shine.(BOOKS)(THE LOST WORD)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20030413
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Byline: Marian Kester Coombs, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

"Riders of the Purple Sage," published in 1912, was Zane Grey's first bestseller, one of many he came to write. It has never been out of print and is considered one of the best Westerns ever written, if not the finest of them all. Yet the novel is rarely read today.

Even less read are the several dozen arguably greater books that Grey published up until his death in 1939 and that Harper & Bros. issued posthumously well into the 1950s. His once-hailed name had by the 1960s become a laughable cliche synonymous ...

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